From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 23:36:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA09142 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:36:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA09131 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:36:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id XAA07739; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:36:58 -0800 Message-Id: <199602270736.XAA07739@Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Garrett A. Wollman" cc: steve hovey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SLOOOOOW rlogin In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:42:12 EST." <9602261642.AA21610@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:36:58 -0800 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >< said: > >> The work around I have in place is a call to stty when the user logs in - >> if you can get away with stty 0 do it - I had to do stty 9600 to get >> decent speed and not mess up pine and elm etc. > >It this is your work-around, then your problem has nothing to do with >flow-control. Simply put, many full-screen terminal-oriented programs >like pine, elm, emacs, etc., insert padding in their output to keep >your fifteen-year-old VT100 from dropping half your screen updates. >Naturally, this padding depends on what the program thinks is the >`speed' of your `serial line'. If the `speed' is very high, then it >will send huge amounts of padding, which you will observe as pauses. Someone reported 6 months or so ago that speeds of > 9600 baud made rlogin really slow, while speeds of 4800/9600 were "fast". I've not validated this claim, but someone might want to look into it. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project